Sara worked as Rochdale Crisis Intervention Team co-ordinator from 2004 to 2014 and was tasked with identifying young people vulnerable to sex exploitation.

She gave damning evidence at the MP-led inquiry into the sex ring in 2012 and revealed Rochdale council’s social services team for children missed 181 chances to stop young girls being groomed for sex.

Speaking on First Dates, Sara said: “The story was sensational and tragic and awful and shook the world.